Word: retreatism
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...Shanksville, Penn., United Airlines Flight 93 traveling from Newark to San Francisco crashed, in an apparently failed attempt to target Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, located 85 miles southeast of the crash site...
...attention will now turn to rescuing and caring for those who survived the New York and Washington attacks, as well as grieving for those who lost their lives yesterday, President Bush said that the U.S. would not let the attacks “frighten our nation into chaos and retreat...
...These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat," Bush said. "But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve...
Sharon knew the retreat risked the wrath of Israel's right wing. For on the world stage, Arafat gives no quarter; at the U.N. conference on racism in South Africa last week, he condemned what he called Israel's "colonial, racist plot" against the Palestinians. Settlers who live in Israeli outposts in the West Bank and Gaza have long considered the Prime Minister one of their champions. Almost three months ago, Sharon visited the hospital bedside of a five-month-old boy injured by a stone thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo...
...invite the Glee Club Lite—the a cappella affiliate of the Harvard Glee Club—to perform in the show, although they never specifically notified the group, according to Jonah M. Knobler, the Lite’s manager. The group had already planned a retreat in order to learn new music for the Jam, he said...